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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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